to answer your question... YES, the polarg is brighter than your stock bulb but mostly if it is reflected off of something you are backing up against. it's not going to light up the road beind you.

Furthermore, the reason it is brighter is because it is 18 watts as opposed to 5 watts stock and not due to the blue color of the coating on the bulb.

i only offer this last statement because some have said that people use the "blue" bulbs thinking they will be brighter because of their color. i don't really think anyone believes that. for the record, the "blue" bulbs are used to make the light whiter in color. it just so happens in this case that this "blue" bulb produces more light due to it's wattage.

as to what will happen in the long run if you use higher wattage bulbs in a circut designed for 5 watts.... only time will tell, but 18 watts isn't much over stock as compared with say, 110 watts. but these things aren't usually on for too long at any given time so it's' up to the individual to decide i guess.

 

Our reverse bulbs are 13w , not 5w. 193 bulbs are 5w I think.

Anyways, during day time if you look down into the plug, you'll see that if you stick a small thin flat blade screw driver (ones for glasses and such) into the space outermost of the plug, it'll push back the tab that holds the clip in the plug. Once you stick the screw drive in, just wiggle/pull the wire out from behind. I did that today it came right out. But it was too cold to fiddle with it all again . I'll do it another day. I ended up breaking all 8 H3 bulbs I had because I was trying to wedge it in before. The light lit up but I didn't trust that it would stay in. Boy were they bright.

I also saw at Walmart, I'm sure other places too, GE (other too I'm sure)makes a bulbe, (quartz halogen) for one of those home halogen fixtures. It looks just like a H3 bulb without the metal and wire, but just the leads out of the bulb. And they are thicker... and they are 12v 50w , I think T4? . Cost a bit less too. I'll probably try that. But I don't know how easy if those leads will bend or since they are thicker, maybe I can just stick them in and hope friction will hold the leads in place.

https://secure.tcinternet.net/buylig...art/bipin.html

3rd one down, T4, 12v 50w

 

cool...good find, let me know if they work, because i broke the lead off of one of my H3 bulbs when trying to jam it in there...it worked for a while, but ended up falling off inside the freaking tail lamp!!! took me about 10 min. just to get it outta there, and by that time the lead was so fragile, it just snapped right off when trying to put it back into the plug...but man were those lights freaking bright!! i cant wait to actually try it out in the dark!